Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya - Battle for Sanctuary Episode 8 Discussion

silversaint said:
Scorpio Milo scene was kinda cool but then wtf? Marin knew about her future what?
Virgo Shakas ilussions at the end, i think they could ve done something better with those, like maybe Shaka trappin them in 6 Samsaras realms but whatever we get some skeletons instead

bobodan said:


i think they tried to mix up that momment from the original when Shiryu went to mount Jamiel to get his and Seiya's cloth repaired by Mu, he had to face the same skeleton knights on a narrow path, where he could only win by going foward no matter what.

Imo right now it's just a crappy filler out of nowhere, Milo going to see Aiolia was also very messed up. I'm not even going to comment the thing about Marin's mask, female knights mask had a meaning that they would revoke their femininity to fight as a knight for Athena, by doing so, they "became" equals to the male knights, and after that, even tho they are woman, they would be treated as male.

Another thing to notice is that, there is a rule on the sanctuary that if a female saint shows her real face to a man, they would fall in love with that man. (that's what happened to Shaina and explains why she loves Seiya, he treated her wound when they were children in training on the sanctuary and he saw her face for the first time, same thing happens with June cause Shun saw her face)

Thats why this whole "future prediction, butterfly turning into a mask" doesnt really track. But since they turned Shun into a female, the whole mask thingy doesnt count anymore, but they needed a way to hide Marins face, since i don't really remember they showing her face on the originals, all for that big mistery that she would be Seiya's lost sister (seika), which she isn't.

But welp, this is not the originals, so what can we expect eh?

ps: just remembered that they show a bit of Marin's face when she lets Seiya use her mask so he could cross the thorny poisoned roses garden created by Aphrodite (and not be affected by the poison on the air) on the path before he would reach the Pope's inner sanctum.

silversaint said:

its definitelly a callback to the Jamir scene but the thing is that was supposed to be low level saint training so it looks a bit jarring seeing it here halfway through the Sanctuary, they should ve used Shakas illusions on a much better way
the Marin thing is just WAT, wait Aiolos is speaking to her? the memories turn into a silver mask? like what is going on? i get it that they need to change the meaning of the mask but that a weird way to do it, to be fair the whole mask thing was always just a plot device

eusoongesvosta said:
the production team of kotz intensely hates the character of aioria

defeated by the north american army s1

defeated by seiya and aioros s1

defeated by shaka and the high priest s1

defeated by seiya and casius emo in the temple of leo s2

defeated by the saint of scorpion s2

Aioria in the 80's animated classic was the most cowardly of the 12 gold saints.

in this boring cgi abomination he is the weakest of all gold saints no doubt about it.

bobodan said:


as much as i would like to agree, Deathmask is probably the weakest (sooo easily defeated by Shiryu on his own turf, much easier than the og), followed very nearly by Aphrodite (even tho we are yet to see Shun releasing his / her nebula op powers)

and to be honest, Aiolia wasn't defeated by Emo Cassius and Seiya, he could easly kill them both, but Seiya wins with the power of protagonist, Cassius dying felt really out of place cause it acomplished nothing.

just to finish, Shaka x Aiolia if it was not interveened by Saga with the imperial satan (forgot the name of this move on the anime), it would become a 1000 day war (that happens when 2 gold saints with equal power face each other), so if Shaka admits that Aiolia is on the same power level as his, Aiolia is not weak even on this sad cgi iteration, just a really bad used character.

there is also the stigma of being the brother of traitor and his internal struggles, he is probably one of the few golds with some kind of a backstory, which makes me sad of how bad they use him, he always like a stepping stone for someone to grow more powerful ahhahaha